Making a Difference

9th Anniversary Celebration Featured Speaker

February 11, 2026

Our 9th Anniversary Celebration on April 9th will be here before we know it, and we are thrilled to announce our featured speaker for the evening’s program: Maddrey Goode, Executive Director of New England Culinary Arts Training (NECAT). After first being awarded with a JPF Principal Grant in 2018, the Boston-based organization was awarded our first-ever Partnership Circle Grant Award in 2023.

Introducing Our Two-Year Partnership Circle Grantees

January 30, 2026

We announced our latest round of grantees in December, including two returning organizations joining our Partnership Circle with a two-year $50,000 grant. This month, we’d like you to get to know these extraordinary organizations. Stone Soup PDX in Portland, OR combines hands-on training, wraparound support services and real kitchen experience to help participants build skills, confidence and pathways to long-term employment.

Drew Nieporent, Michel Nischan, Andrew Zimmern, Jacques Pépin and Jacques Torres

JPF 9th Anniversary Celebration

January 28, 2026

This spring, we’re coming together again for the JPF’s most significant event of the year: our 9th Anniversary Celebration on April 9th in New York City! Tickets are available now, and we want to see you there! Join the festivities and raise a glass in support of the mission we share. Proceeds will support the Jacques Pépin Foundation and our Grantee organizations making real change through the power of culinary education across the country.

Ron Ben-Israel, Emily Mingrone, Reneé Touponce, Jacques Pépin, Terrance Brennan, Christophe Santos, Adam Young

Celebrating Jacques with a Grand Finale to the 90/90 Campaign

January 15, 2026

After 18 months and 89 amazing events, the 90th celebration on Jacques’ actual 90th birthday was the crowning jewel of the 90/90 Campaign. Jacques, Claudine, and much of the JPF team welcomed guests to the sold-out event in Jacques’ adopted hometown at an historic beachfront resort with Connecticut’s finest culinary talent.

Culinary students at Rise and Shine Bakery

Announcing the JPF’s Latest Round of Grantee Organizations

January 13, 2026

We are delighted to announce the final round of 2025 Principal Grant awardees, along with two Partnership Circle Grant recipients. We are honored to partner with these community-based culinary training programs and excited to see how far their graduates will go.